As you may have heard, Chelmsford's 2010 One Book selection, Shutter Island is being released as a movie this month. We're hoping that many people will see it, in addition to reading the book.

The movie opened Friday, Feb 19th, and has been getting good reviews. If you haven't seen it yet, how about seeing it with the Library? Details are still being worked out, but we're hoping to have a "Chelmsford night" at a local cinema, so many of us who read the book can all watch the movie together.

In other movie news, the February and March Library Cinema Nights will be showing Dennis Lehane movies. February's showing was Mystic River, and the March 18th Cinema Night will be another of his books. Check the Cinema Night webpage or the Library's Calendar for more details.

Filmmaker and Chelmsford resident Fred Barzyk has just finished a new film on Chelmsford's 4th of July festivities!

The film, "Great American 4th of July," will be screened on Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. The screening will be held at the the Chelmsford Center of the Arts at the Old Town Hall, and is free and open to the public.

And speaking of filmmaker Fred Barzyk, DVDs of Fred's first Chelmsford film, "Our Town our Voices: Introduction to the Library," are available at the front desk of the main library. If you haven't seen the film yet please take a copy while there are some still left.

On Saturday, January 17, 2009, filmmaker Fred Barzyk will release, "Our Town Our Voices - An Introduction to the Library" - a movie featuring your hometown public library!

Be sure to catch a showing of this hour-long film. It will be shown continuously from 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. on Chelmsford's cable channel 10 on Saturday, January 17, 2009. We'll play it on a television in the library that day, and the film will also be available on DVD in late January for you to check out.

The film was premiered on Friday, January 9th at the library, for the library staff, the staff of Chelmsford Telemedia, and anyone appearing in the film. It ended up being a standing room-only crowd, and everyone was delighted with the show.